Blog by Tag: Ducklings

This week we have learnt the rhyme '5 Little Ducks' as we are learning all about our class.

. The children have loved learning the rhyme and actions, and are able to apply this in their independent learning. They have used the props on the maths table to sing with friends, count the ducks and…

Today we showed Miss Mayer how we hold our pencils and how many of the pre-writing shapes we can complete. This is something we will be working on over the year as it will help us in so many ways. When colouring we will learn new types of lines to represent objects. people and animals and it will…

We loved free colouring today! We could choose to draw anything we wanted. Miss Mayer was super impressed with how many colours we knew and how we could communicate our interests. We looked at what hand the crayons felt comfortable in and how we correctly hold a pencil/crayon.

Well done…

Our first 3 days in Nursery were so fun! We met our new teachers, made new friends and explored all of the different areas in our classroom and outside!

I hope you all had as much fun as I did and I can't wait to see you for our first full week on Monday. 

Today grey ducklings worked hard to form the letters in one of the CVC words that we have been blending and segmenting in phonics. Letter formation and neatness of writing was fantastic! Well done Nursery.

This week Nursery have travelled to France to explore the country and how it differs to Stoke - on - Trent. Today we have enjoyed talking about popular French food, and creating our own plates. We also wrote the names of the food created, independently forming each letter and looking at the flash…

This week, Nursery impressed us with their fantastic African artwork! We have been thinking about Kenya, Africa and what it would be like to go on holiday here. We talked about the differences between Stoke-on-Trent and Kenya, such as weather, animals, clothing and schools. We then painted our…

This week, Nursery have been talking about how to keep safe on holiday. We looked at this picture and spotted all of the dangers that we could see. We used full sentences to discuss why certain people were not safe and what they should be doing. We practiced our speaking and listening skills,…

Today Nursery went for a trip to the seaside! At the seaside we wanted some ice cream so needed to count the scoops. We did an amazing job of matching number to quantity from 1-10, and then drew various ice cream amounts on the whiteboard. Well done Nursery! 

Today, we began putting our phonics development into practice by listening to sounds in order to write some CVC words. We we absolute superstars and could hear the sounds in each word really well. We even knew how to write each sound with minimum support! Well done superstars

We have enjoyed planting seeds in our gardening area outside. We talked about the different hinge that our seeds will need to grow, dug the soil ourselves and watered our planted seeds. Now we just have to wait for them to grow! 

This morning our butterflies were finally ready to fly away. We took them over to the grass and took them out one by one to let them fly away. We said goodbye and enjoyed watching where they decided to go. Some went on the grass and some flew straight in the air!